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Drew Higgins is a researcher affiliated with McMaster University in Canada, specializing in energy, engineering, and materials science. Their scholarly output includes a focus on sustainable and advanced technologies within these domains, particularly related to electrocatalysis, battery development, and energy conversion processes.

The primary fields of study for Higgins encompass:

  • Energy
  • Engineering
  • Materials Science

Within these areas, the researcher's subfields of study include:

  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Catalysis
  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

Their main topics of work reflect emphasis on energy-related catalyst and battery technologies:

  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
  • Advanced battery technologies research
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication
  • Fuel Cells and Related Materials
  • Advancements in Battery Materials

Higgins has collaborated frequently with other researchers, with notable repeated co-authors including:

  • Ahmed Abdellah
  • Thomas F. Jaramillo
  • Fatma Ismail
  • Navid Noor
  • Storm Gourley

Their publications have appeared in a range of scientific venues, with multiple contributions to conferences and journals such as:

  • ECS Meeting Abstracts
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • ACS Catalysis
  • Advanced Materials
  • Advanced Functional Materials

Examples of recent scientific papers authored or co-authored by Higgins include:

  • "Zinc-ion batteries for stationary energy storage", 2023, Joule
  • "Understanding the Origin of Highly Selective CO2 Electroreduction to CO on Ni,N-doped Carbon Catalysts", 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Tuning Two-Electron Oxygen-Reduction Pathways for H2O2 Electrosynthesis via Engineering Atomically Dispersed Single Metal Site Catalysts", 2022, Advanced Materials
  • "Selective reduction of CO to acetaldehyde with CuAg electrocatalysts", 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "In Situ Formation of Nano Ni-Co Oxyhydroxide Enables Water Oxidation Electrocatalysts Durable at High Current Densities", 2021, Advanced Materials

Best Publications

  • What would it take for renewably powered electrosynthesis to displace petrochemical processes

    Phil De Luna;Phil De Luna;Phil De Luna;Christopher Hahn;Christopher Hahn;Drew Higgins;Drew Higgins;Drew Higgins;Shaffiq A. Jaffer

  • A review on non-precious metal electrocatalysts for PEM fuel cells

    Zhongwei Chen;Drew Higgins;Aiping Yu;Lei Zhang

  • Direct atomic-level insight into the active sites of a high-performance PGM-free ORR catalyst.

    Hoon T. Chung;David A. Cullen;Drew Higgins;Brian T. Sneed

  • A review of graphene and graphene oxide sponge: material synthesis and applications to energy and the environment

    Victor Chabot;Drew Higgins;Aiping Yu;Xingcheng Xiao

  • Gas-Diffusion Electrodes for Carbon Dioxide Reduction: A New Paradigm

    Drew Higgins;Drew Higgins;Christopher Hahn;Christopher Hahn;Chengxiang Xiang;Thomas F. Jaramillo;Thomas F. Jaramillo

  • The application of graphene and its composites in oxygen reduction electrocatalysis: a perspective and review of recent progress

    Drew Higgins;Pouyan Zamani;Aiping Yu;Zhongwei Chen

  • Functionalized Graphene Oxide Nanocomposite Membrane for Low Humidity and High Temperature Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells

    Hadis Zarrin;Drew Higgins;Yu Jun;Yu Jun;Zhongwei Chen

  • Highly active and durable core-corona structured bifunctional catalyst for rechargeable metal-air battery application.

    Zhu Chen;Aiping Yu;Drew Higgins;Hui Li

  • Electrochemical Carbon Monoxide Reduction on Polycrystalline Copper: Effects of Potential, Pressure, and pH on Selectivity toward Multicarbon and Oxygenated Products

    Lei Wang;Stephanie A. Nitopi;Erlend Bertheussen;Marat Orazov

  • Highly Active Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Nanotubes for Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Fuel Cell Applications

    Zhu Chen;Drew Higgins;Haisheng Tao;Ryan S. Hsu

  • Designing Boron Nitride Islands in Carbon Materials for Efficient Electrochemical Synthesis of Hydrogen Peroxide

    Shucheng Chen;Zhihua Chen;Samira Siahrostami;Drew Higgins

  • Nitrogen doped carbon nanotubes and their impact on the oxygen reduction reaction in fuel cells

    Zhu Chen;Drew Higgins;Zhongwei Chen

  • Engineering Cu surfaces for the electrocatalytic conversion of CO2: Controlling selectivity toward oxygenates and hydrocarbons

    Christopher Hahn;Christopher Hahn;Toru Hatsukade;Youn-Geun Kim;Arturas Vailionis

  • Zinc-ion batteries for stationary energy storage

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  • Multifunctional TiO2–C/MnO2 Core–Double-Shell Nanowire Arrays as High-Performance 3D Electrodes for Lithium Ion Batteries

    Jin-Yun Liao;Drew Higgins;Gregory Lui;Victor Chabot

  • Defective Carbon-Based Materials for the Electrochemical Synthesis of Hydrogen Peroxide

    Shucheng Chen;Zhihua Chen;Samira Siahrostami;Taeho Roy Kim

  • Free-Standing Layer-By-Layer Hybrid Thin Film of Graphene-MnO2 Nanotube as Anode for Lithium Ion Batteries

    Aiping Yu;Hey Woong Park;Aaron Davies;Drew C Higgins

  • Biologically inspired highly durable iron phthalocyanine catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells.

    Wenmu Li;Aiping Yu;Drew C. Higgins;Bernard G. Llanos

  • Tuning Two‐Electron Oxygen‐Reduction Pathways for H2O2 Electrosynthesis via Engineering Atomically Dispersed Single Metal Site Catalysts

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  • Development and Simulation of Sulfur-doped Graphene Supported Platinum with Exemplary Stability and Activity Towards Oxygen Reduction

    Drew Higgins;Ariful Hoque;Min Ho Seo;Rongyue Wang

  • Metal-organic framework-derived bamboo-like nitrogen-doped graphene tubes as an active matrix for hybrid oxygen-reduction electrocatalysts.

    Qing Li;Hengyu Pan;Drew Higgins;Ruiguo Cao

  • In Situ Polymer Graphenization Ingrained with Nanoporosity in a Nitrogenous Electrocatalyst Boosting the Performance of Polymer‐Electrolyte‐Membrane Fuel Cells

    Xiaogang Fu;Pouyan Zamani;Ja-Yeon Choi;Fathy M. Hassan

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhongwei Chen
Zhongwei Chen University of Waterloo
Thomas F. Jaramillo
Thomas F. Jaramillo Stanford University
Christopher Hahn
Christopher Hahn Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Gang Wu
Gang Wu Washington University in St. Louis
Aiping Yu
Aiping Yu University of Waterloo
Jens K. Nørskov
Jens K. Nørskov Technical University of Denmark
Qing Li
Qing Li Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Xingcheng Xiao
Xingcheng Xiao General Motors (United States)
Piotr Zelenay
Piotr Zelenay Los Alamos National Laboratory
Fritz B. Prinz
Fritz B. Prinz Stanford University

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